Combined bed and luggage carrier



June 26, 1923. 1,459,972

F. c. CLAUSON ET AL COMBINED BED AND LUGGAGE CARRIER Filed Jan. 16, 1922 Patented June 26, 19.23.

UNITED stares QFFIQE FERDINAND o. CLAUSON, or has MOINE$, AND anon-en GRANT KIBBEE, or ronnsr CITY, IOWA.

COMBINED BED AND LUGGAGE CARRIER.

Application filed January 16, 1922.

T all whom "it may concern):

Be it known that we, FERDINAND C. OLAU- son and Gnonen GRANT Kinnnn, citizens of the United States, and residents of Des Moines, in the county of Folk, and Forest City, in the county of Winnebago, respectively, in the State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Bed and Luggage Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a combined bed and luggage carrier of simple, durable and inexpensive construction for use with motor vehicles.

More particularly, it is our object to provide a device of the kind under consideration, which collapses or folds up, so that it may, together with the parts of the automobile including the running board and the body of the car, form a luggage carrier,

and which, when extended, may, together with the parts of the car, form a suitable bed.

With these and other objects in view, our

invention consists in the construction, ar-

rangement and combination of the various parts of our device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in our claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of our combined bed and luggage carrier installed on a car.

Figure 2 shows a vertical, sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 shows a vertical, sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 shows a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 shows a vertical, sectional view of the upper part of the device, when folded up to serve as a part of a luggage carrier, and

5 Figure 6 shows a horizontal, sectional view taken on the line 66 of Figure 1.

' In the accompanying drawings, we have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally the body of an automobile, having the fenders 11 and 12 and the ordinary running board 13.

Our improved combined bed and luggage carrier is designed to be detachably connected with and hinged to the running board,

so that it may, when extended, form a bed,

Serial No. 529,624.

and when collapsed, stand upright from the outer edge of the running board, leaving a space between it, that is to say the folded bed and luggage carrier, and the wall of the automobile, in which the luggage may be carried.

Our improved combined bed and luggage carrier is preferably made in sections. In the form of invention disclosed in our drawings, we have shown two of such sections, having a rectangular frame 141, preferably made of angle iron, as illustrated.

The inner frame member of the inner section is pivoted or hinged along the line 15 to a channel bar 16, shown particularly in Figures 1 and 2, which is designed to receive the edge of the running board, as illustrated in said figures.

lVfounted in the lower flange or wall of the channel bar 16 are screw bolts or the like 17, having the heads 18 and the swivel plates 17 (see Figure 2), for locking the channel bar 16 to the running board 13.

The two sections, having the frame 1 1, are hinged together, as at 19, at the lower edges of the adjacent flanges of the frame members 14. as illustrated in Figure 3.

Each frame is preferably provided with suitable wires and springs 20 and 21, as shown. The outer frame is provided with a plurality of legs, which may be made detachable, as shown. The legs comprise the bars or members 22. Each member 22 is secured to the frame member by means of a bolt 23 and wing nut 24:. Each leg 22 has a vertical rib 25. A leg member 26 is slidably connected with the member 22 by means of a bolt 29 extended through an elongated slot 28 in the rib 25. Each member 26 has a groove 27 which receives and fits the rib 25. On the bolt 29 is a wing nut 30.

By loosening the wing nut 30, the leg members of each leg may be adjusted for adapting the structure to various automobiles having their running boards at different heights.

Pivoted to the end frame member of the outer frame or section is a bar 31 at each end of the bed. When the device is in the position to serve as a bed, as shown in Figure 1, the members 31 are extended toward the running board alongside the end members of the sectlon. A bolt 32 and wing nuts 83 are used for locking the members 31 to the frame sections nearest the automobile.

Another leg, similar to that already described, may be secured at each end of the bed, as shown for instance in Figure 1.

hen it is desired to collapse the bed and make a luggage carrier of it, the detachable legs are removed by unscrewing the wing nuts 24 and removing the bolts 23. The

wing nuts 33 are removed so that the members 31 hang loose. The inner frame or section is then drawn upwardly until it stands in vertical position and the outer frame then swings downwardly, as shown for instance in Figure 5.

On the running board, I preferably bolt small angle iron brackets 35, shown in Figure 1, which are provided with suitable openings 36 to receive bolts, whereby the members 81 may be secured to the brackets 35. The members 31 then stand in the position shown in Figure 2, where they form end members for the luggage carrier..

It will be seen that the frames 14 stand spaced from the body 10 and form the outer wall of the luggage carrier, while the members '31 form end members.

The detached legs may be placed in any suitable package or place for further trans portat-ion.

It will be seen that when the device is folded to position for forming a lug age carrier, the parts will be firmly held and the bed will be folded, where it will serve its new purpose satisfactoril The bed may be made of different sizes, engths and of different materials, as may be desired.

use with a vehicle having a running board,

comprising first and second frames, each having means forming a support "for bed clothing, means for hinging the first frame at one edge to the outer edge of the running board to movefrom horizontal to vertical position, means for hinging the outer edge of said first frame to the edge of the second frame to permitthe frames to stand in aligned horizontalposition or in vertical, folded position with the second frame-outside the first frame. adjacent thereto, braces pivoted to the ends of' the second frame, means for securing said braces inoverlapped positions to the ends of the first frame when the frames are extended, and means for securing said braces to the vehicle in ositions inclined inwardly and downwal' ly from the frames for rigidly supporting the frames in verticaliposition and forming end members of a luggage carrier. I

Des Moines, Iowa, January 3, 1922.

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